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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69845	The Case of the forfeitures in Ireland fairly stated with the reasons that induced the Protestants there to purchase them.		1700 (1700)	Wing C912aA; Wing C1073; ESTC N61326	17,514	56

had done so many Heroick Actions and had so valiantly fought for the Honour of his Country had but 100 l. per. ann Pension for his Life and some Lands in Ireland then of no value the said Earl having ' had no other recompence for his long services which moderation of his is a reproach to the avarice of the present times I must with this Gentleman own that the Heroick Actions of that Noble Earl whose name carries merit in it deserved the greatest recompence that could be given But considering the Poverty of those times and the great value of Money the Recompence tho' not equal to the Merits of the Man yet was greater than he represents it He adds that he had besides some Lands in Ireland then of no value the words of the Act are Till then yeilding nothing being in the hands of Rebels I can assure this Gentleman that the Lands of that noble Lord of which afterwards his Family was deprived by the Statute of Absentees made in Ireland were more than all the Irish ferfeitures disposed of by his present Majesty put together This considered he might with more Justice have said That this shews the moderation of his Grace the present Duke of Shrewsbury who notwithstanding the great Services of his Ancestors in Ireland notwithstanding his own great Merit has not beg'd any Grant of the King in that Kingdom where he had so good a claim But since in comparing Grants made formerly with those of the present time he has mentioned the favours conferred on a Noble Lord of that Great and Honourable Family to make His Majesty's Grants look the greater and more exorbitant I will tell him what I find in my Lord Coke's 12th Report E. of Shrewsbury's Case that King Henry VIII did grant to George E. of Shrewsbury and his Heirs the Abbey of Rufford with the Lands thereto belonging in the County of Nottingham the Lordship of Rotheram in the County of York the Abbeys of Chesterfield Shirbrook and Gossadel in the County of Derby with divers other Lands and Tenements of great value This I mention here being led into it by the Author to shew that there were great Grants in former times Of which more hereafter What this Act of Henry VI. was what force and operation it had whether that which this Gentleman would suggest the Reader may guess from what follows Had all the Crown Lands dispos'd of by that King except those that were secured to the Grantees by the several reservations made by the Commons and the King himself by that resuming Act been re-invested in the Crown there could have been no place left for the complaints and several resuming Acts or Petitions that follow'd By them the nature and validity of this Act as well as their own force and operation is discover'd The very next year 29 th Hen. 6. Another appears of the same nature with this In it there are great complaints made by the Commons of their Poverty of many unportable charges laid upon them and of there being no benefit of the former Resumption how so I wonder if 't was a positive resuming Act Therefore in the most lowly wise to us possible we say the Commons beseechen you most noblay graciously and tenderly to consider the great benefits that should grow unto you and to this your Roialme by the means of this resumption The King in answer to the Petition tells them that by the advice of his Lords Spiritual and Temporal his exellency is agreed to resume c. But 't is with Provisions and Exceptions for all that he pleases as appears by the assent Four years after this 33. Hen. 6. another Act of Resumption passes which shews what kind of Acts these were The Commons set forth That not withstanding their large Grants of Goods he was indebted in outragious Sums that the Revenue of his Land did not suffice to sustain his houshold whereof the People say they lament and sorrow piteously What became then of the Lands vested in the Crown by the former Resumptions The King assents to this Petition as before but with a Reserve for his Prerogative and savings for what he pleased This shews the meaning of those Acts They were only Prayers and Petitions to the King to pity them and the low Estate of his Crown and to resume as much of the Revenues he had given away as was sufficient to support his Family What could there be more in such a Resuming Act wherein the King in the Royal Assent inserts a saving for his Prerogative This I think is plainly manifest by the effect and operation of these Acts. These were the Acts Resumption made by Henry VI. Some may object says this Author that Henry VI. under whose Reign these three Resumptions were made was a weak Prince unfortunate abroad ingaged in Factions at home and kept under by the house of York I would ask that Gentleman what need there is of such an objection for what effect had all these Petitions what was this weak King forced to do Did not he assert his Prerogative Were there any resumptions by what followed 't will appear whether there were or no. This Gentleman was not aware that the insinuating this Objection makes greatly against him For what opinion had the People of Resumptions at that time or of their right of claiming them when in the Reign of so weak a Prince their Acts as they are called avail'd no more About five years after 1 Edw. IV. as soon as that King came to the Crown his Subjects desir'd a Resumption By this all Grants were to be resum'd that were made since the latter end of Rich. II. which was above sixty years The reasons will be clear to any one that knows the History of England This Gentleman does well to name this among the other Precedents to let us know the moderation of those times and to shew that no Prescription will secure Men against a resuming Act. This resumption he says was too large to have any good effect Why so The more Lands it seiz'd the better the effect But it seems it did no execution For Three years after Anno 3 and 4 Edw. IV. there pass'd another Act. This Act as well as the former pass'd with such exceptions as it should please the King to make A prodigious number of these savings it seems there were in so much that our Author says they seem intirely to defeat the design and intention of the Act. Therefore Three or four years after 7 Edw. IV. we are told of another this the King desires for he tells them he is resolv'd to live of his own and not be a charge to his Subjects This passes with what Provisions and Exceptions the King is pleas'd to make but as ill luck would have it the Exceptions our Author tells us frustrated the good intentions of the Commons Thus according to him each of these three Acts was a Felo de se Why then are they produc'd 'T is